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OSX is preventing you from doing something harmful. Ordinarily you
ought not remove and/or rename System files, nor (as a rule) whould you
add files to the OSX System/Library. Most OSX fonts are not located in
/System/Library/Fonts, but are by default located in Library/Fonts, but
it is also probably a bad idea to change the file names for fonts in
this location too. However, if you are set on this appraoach then you
will probably be better to copy/duplicate font files accross to
/Users/your_user_name/Library/Application Support/GIMP/2.8/fonts, and
make any changes to the font file names in this location.
>----Original Message----
>From: for...@gimpusers.com
>Date: 26/03/2016 18:46
>To: <gimp-user-list@gnome.org>
>Cc: <notificati...@gimpusers.com>
>Subj: [Gimp-user] Gimp Font List or remove unwanted fonts
>
>>Steve,
>>
>>Nice workaround for the ordering. On the Mac OS, you can also add a
>>special character that sorts last to get the unwanted fonts down to
>>the bottom of the list. I use <Option z> which generates an omega
>>character.
>>
>>Ross
>
>Thanks for adding this to Steve's reply. If I can rename fonts, I can
also use
>"99" to send fonts to the bottom of the list. And Option z looks
awesome as
>well.
>
>(Main problem continues to be that I cannot do anything to the system
fonts in
>/System/Library/Fonts/. That is, I assume that since I cannot move
them to the
>trash or make them inactive in the Font Book, I also cannot rename
them. But I
>will try it out and see.
>
>--
>Snowyn (via www.gimpusers.com/forums)
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